Banana & Duct Tape Tech Bozo Flaunts Massive Wealth Disparity

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Last story, $6.2 million banana and duct tape. This is something you and I talk about all the time, the class distinction. Okay. The story is Sotheby’s. Okay. This is the greatest thing you're going to ever see. It's a banana that is duct taped up to the wall. It's a wall. Maybe it was a big thing.

That's right.

And this idiot who's in the tech industry, oh my God, I see such meaning to that and he buys the thing for $6.2 million. Now, that tells me a lot of things. First of all, it tells me he's an idiot. The guy's a complete freakish idiot. Second of all, it tells me that there's such a disparity between the haves and the have-nots right now that this guy thinks it's great to buy a banana that is taped to the wall and says, this is really art. When the artist says, I was just messing around. That's really what happened here. So you idiot, you just spent $6.2 million that you could have given to people who don't have food to eat in this country, don't have a place to live, don't have healthcare, but in your mind doesn't make any difference. You have so much money and there's such a disparity between the have and the have nots that this is a norm.

Well, there almost is some symbolism in it too, if you think about it, because look, we've got a large portion of the country that cannot afford groceries.

Yeah. Wow.

And this pays $6 million for a banana.

Yeah. Come eat my banana if you're starving to death. That kind of.

So, it is disgusting. And these tech guys, I just, I want that bubble to burst. I just really want these guys.

It's going to burst. They're going to take it on the chin under this administration. That's why you have that little nothing Zuckerberg showing up at Mar-a-Lago pleading with the king to kiss his ring, and this is after the king Trump says, you know, if you mess up again, you're going to prison for life.

Bezos with the Washington Post, oh, we got to run six stories today about Hunter Biden. We got to do 10 more tomorrow.

Is that what's going on?

Well, he wouldn't let them for the first time do an endorsement. And I think Bezos understands, okay, listen, Amazon, we've got government contracts. That's what makes up most of our money.

Oh, huge. What's it 60% of their money? Did you tell me one time?

Yeah. I think it's a little more than that.

It's huge.

We could be looking at maybe some antitrust issues. So let's not this guy off anymore.

And oh, by the way, my enemy Musk is sitting on the right hand of Trump. So Bezos is freaked. These tech people, I think it's time, and this banana story to me just goes, oh god almighty. Have we really gotten there? Farron Cousins, I really do believe you're the best progressive commentator in the business. It's been fun. Okay.

Thank you.

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